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In philosophy, metempsychosis (Ancient Greek: μετεμψύχωσις) is the transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. The term is derived from ancient Greek philosophy, and has been recontextualized by modern philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer, [1] Kurt Gödel, [2] Mircea Eliade, [3] and Magdalena Villaba; [4] otherwise, the word "transmigration" is more ...
Illustration of reincarnation in Hindu art In Jainism, a soul travels to any one of the four states of existence after death depending on its karmas.. Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new lifespan in a different physical form or body after biological death.
Gilgul (also Gilgul neshamot or Gilgulei HaNeshamot; Heb. גלגול הנשמות , Plural: גלגולים Gilgulim) is a concept of reincarnation or "transmigration of souls" [1] in Kabbalistic esoteric mysticism. In Hebrew, the word gilgul means "cycle" or "wheel" and neshamot is the plural for "souls."
On the Transmigration of Souls is a composition for orchestra, mixed chorus, children's choir, and pre-recorded tape by the American composer John Adams (born 1947). It was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center 's Great Performers (and an anonymous but prominent New York family) shortly after the September 11 terrorist ...
[167] [20] But this may refer only to a specific kind of transmigration according to theologian Geddes MacGregor, who has argued that Origen must have believed in the Platonic teaching of metempsychosis ('transmigration of souls'; i.e. reincarnation) [173] [167] because it makes sense within his eschatology [174] and is never explicitly denied ...
Buddhism denies there is any such soul or self in a living being, but does assert that there is a cycle of transmigration consisting of rebirth and redeath as the fundamental nature of existence. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 21 ]
As such the soul passed away when certain arrangements of these elements ceased to exist. [55] However, the teaching most securely identified with Pythagoras is metempsychosis, or the "transmigration of souls", which holds that every soul is immortal and, upon death, enters into a new body. [56]
Transmigration may refer to: Transmigration of the soul, a religious philosophical concept; Transmigration program, the program to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia to less populous areas of the country; Transmigration, a 1970 novel by J. T. McIntosh; Transmigration, a 1993 album by Crematory